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Kiwi:
Exhibit opens on prostitution in concentration camps

A new exhibit tells the story of women whom the Nazis forced to become sex-workers.

"Sex-Slave Labour in the Nazi-Concentraion Camps," opened Oct. 31 and runs through Jan. 18 at the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg. It was curated by researchers at the memorial at Ravensbrueck, the former concentration camp for women, from which most of the forced prostitutes were taken. The exhibit includes interviews with eyewitnesses, photographs and contemporary documents.

Using mostly Germany women taken from Ravensbrueck, Nazi guards set up a whorehouse at Neuengamme. The women were not permitted to leave the premises, which were visted by privileged male prisoners who were considered racially superior. SS cheif Heinrich Himmler hoped the brothel would make prisoners more productive.

Many surviving women have not spoken of the experience, sixty-five years after the bordello was set up. According to the exhibit organizers, from 1944 until the end of the war, 12 women were forced to work there at any given time.

Researcher and author Christa Paul, who has written about the forced prostitution centers, told reporters that many women who became prostitutes did so because they thought it would save their lives. But some of their fellow prisoners suspected them of having volunteered. This was not the case, Paul said.

According to researcher Robert Sommer, about 220 women were forced to do similar work in ten concentration camps.

In an interview in the German press, Paul said that research on this subject has lagged, as many Holocaust survivors and directors of memorials feared it would give a false impression of daily life at the camps. After sexual violence was offiically recognized in 2002 as a crime against humanity, and a war crime, researchers began tackling the theme in earnest.

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/home/index.html

These poor women, and most of the time are forgotten.

newman:
The Japs used (forced) European women for their officers' 'recreation'.

Lest we forget! >:(

Kiwi:
Yes women throughout history have been abused by men in wars.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Women are strong in many ways.  :)

Not made of glass as some wish us to believe.  ^-^

Mstislav:

--- Quote from: The Infidel. on November 11, 2007, 05:13:19 AM ---Yes women throughout history have been abused by men in wars.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Women are strong in many ways.  :)

Not made of glass as some wish us to believe.  ^-^

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As I have said in a previous post in another thread, without women, men are royally screwed. What the Nazis and Japs did was horrendous. I hope they died horribly.  >:(

JTFFan:

--- Quote from: Mstislav on November 11, 2007, 05:22:06 AM ---
--- Quote from: The Infidel. on November 11, 2007, 05:13:19 AM ---Yes women throughout history have been abused by men in wars.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Women are strong in many ways.  :)

Not made of glass as some wish us to believe.  ^-^

--- End quote ---

As I have said in a previous post in another thread, without women, men are royally screwed. What the Nazis and Japs did was horrendous. I hope they died horribly.  >:(

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Agreed.  O0 What they did was more horrendous and abominable than anything else people could do.

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